Town seeks utility grant

The Town of Tunica is applying this week for Community Development Block Grant funding to upgrade utility service to 60 homes in Nellie Johnson Village.

The $450,000 grant would rework an aging pumping station south of Beat Line Road and east of the town’s corporate limits, acccording to Granville Sherman, program specialist with North Delta Planning and Development District.

“The pumping station there is not adequate for the number of homes it is serving,” Sherman said at a public hearing on the matter April 30.